possible to know who is good and who is bad in that side of that conflict well it seems like whenever you know it works for the mainstream media these major outlets it's they get to control the whole narrative there and it's when it works for them to receive over it all. it was according to newsweek the just to point this out another rugby available for the source did newsweek both the twenty seventeen attack and con and the two thousand and thirteen attack and are considered unsolved unsolved in the eyes of the defense department and defense intelligence agency. and this is after secretary of defense james madison admitted the u.s. now it has no evidence that syrian government used there and in the attacks and we have robert because there's many reporters have been as and i think it's unclear ratably dishonest to continue to pretend as if they have facts and they have all the of sources and they don't give them to people it causes people their lives as

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controversial mix of sports and politics is an old one here in the united states from jackie robinson's of mohammad ali a colleague one of the basic roots of political controversy in sports has been an athlete's right to free speech does an individual lose their right to protest the moment they get paid to put on pads bounce a basketball or catch a baseball here in the united states in the age of president trump the debate over free speech in sports has reached a chorus shanda from n.f.l. players taking you neal dear and taking a need to ring the national anthem the n.b.a. championship teams refusing to make the end all celebratory trip to the white house now this week e.s.p.n. commentators from al hill and the sports network reached a biodegrade met after their relationship between the sports commentator and the disney own network soured after she called trump a white supremacist for his actions following the tragedy in charlottesville last year and suggest fans boycott dallas cowboys advertisers after team owner jerry

jones threatened the bench players who didn't stand very men actually amped up here to discuss hill and the issues of free speech race and pro sports a pro sports is author educator and speaker baltimore's own do you watch it's. always a pleasure of you on i want to start with your take of you know he'll just be your bio you know reports is the bio is mutual agreement they both came to agreement it wasn't just been firing or anything like that. but was this e.s.p.n. essentially in a way kind of buying her silence at least from from there are waves like we don't want you here anymore is we're just going to pay you to go away so first and foremost. e.s.p.n. is you know i feel like they're spineless because in the political arena and pop culture we are included in everything sort of fact these political commentators you know they don't want them talking about politics is crazy because yeah they're commentators but they're citizens as well so you know i think the silent era was i

think it was really really bad but it was bad for their network and it's bad for sports in general and i think you know people who are really into sports and watch their network a lot they know they have a connection with e.s.p.n. so they do want to know about different things. in dealing with the commentators because their job is so personal their personality comes out in their work. they ask you because this is the question i have that whether or not this really was a violence sort of a violation of our free speech so do you think this was an actual violation of our constitutional right to free speech or it was simply as we often say like do you have freedom of speech you don't have freedom from the consequences that speech is the consequence of her speech because of her platform it's definitely it's definitely you know related to what you said you know i feel like you know jamal here is. she's an amazing journalist she's an amazing reporters she was one of the

best people that e.s.p.n. ever showcased so you know what they did was they lost a person that was very talented very very great for their company but at the same time. you know i feel like she should want to be there anyway because if you know you're going to try to move her around or you know or silence her or have her take different positions in the company because she said something that was very honest she does he is like me the minute we he says it himself in his actions in how you handles it how he governs like you see it so i feel like. if you disagree with that you can debate it in a way that's respectable but you know getting rid of her if it's a house you've got was just i thought it was bad you know it's interesting because while she you know kind of came to the mutual buyout with e.s.p.n. which i think is you know there's numbers thrown out with those for sure that you can you know it could be like six million dollars that she got you know but

essential paid out to leave her contract with them another anchor there are you know commentator there michelle beadle spoke you know she's an e.s.p.n. is host who spoke out against the n.f.l. in college football football's treatment of domestic abuse and treatment of women you know and what's interesting is is she vowed i will never watch the n.f.l. or college football again which them severely handicaps you know her ability as an analyst on the end of your only she's only going to the n.b.a. but she essentially was given a contract extension and then was assigned you know reassigned to a different show that just dealt with the n.b.a. rather than the n f l. it's interesting seeing how your screen handled these two it's the same thing as two different anchors speaking their minds but one got a contract extension and moved to a show that more suited her and what she wanted and the other was very let's just pay you six million dollars you can leave your why you think we're seeing that yeah i would even go. there. because you can't be

a network that's going to advocate for domestic violence. you know that's just is you know and you would you would like to think that these networks will want to see you know want to be more progressive especially since ship is so diverse you would think that they would champion that but. yeah the difference in those two cases is you know politics so dirty and if you're if you're friends on a ones who buddies with the network or if you have one of your employees this is something that a whole lot of huge segment of the fan base isn't really trying to hear you know. you don't get any rewards for being on it so you don't get rewarded for speaking the truth you get you get blackbaud and. that's why i said we got to champion people when they do you guys do all of the time it's not it's not easy to be truth teller if you play the consequences out of the you know i champion both of those women for stepping up i will do that you know i will do that one of the things

about. that i noticed was this idea that what came out after she had made a tweet you know. which i think it's hilarious that that's literally that all of this came out of a tweet a tweet less than one hundred forty characters on the internet and the whole world like loses their mind when he bumped it up to zero. dollars but the president oh yes. you know his is sort of narrative on this is that we're a sports station we're not a poll. logical station i don't know about. theory but that it's a sports station we're not political but that's anybody who's ever watched e.s.p.n. who's ever watched you know a sports owner any of that knows that that they don't there's a lot more to sports than just what happens on the field and they talk about it it's intertwined the history of sports you know like we were talking about muhammad

ali all these sports has a pull it's political whether they want to believe it or not because the people who watch it is us that are so diverse so do you think this idea that e.s.p.n. is just going to do sports it will never talk about anything political do you think that's even possible to attain i mean you know the question that i would you know take from what you just said is what happens when you know a citizen is treated in a way that upsets of the athlete and the athlete this is to do some type of. political protests you take a lot of sports right there so are you going to report that when you see the lebron james and his fellow teammates with hoodies that represent trayvon martin or brief t. shirts. to on earth god they're going to report that you want to skip past that and go straight to the game why are we getting so bent out of shape or is different sports teams trying to make at least for the national anthem you're not going to

report that you don't all of these things it's one holistically so why commentators people like to get a chance to be people like we are do you know i mean thing is i have never exact i've never seen an e.s.p.n. commentator a male yes commentator stop himself from talking about how calling proper americans just a terrible you know a terrible player and that's why he didn't like they made excuses for domestic violence i've seen them make excuses for these things so i think a little let's remember some of this you know what up until just a few short years ago the you know you get the n.f.l. with the biggest leagues in the world you know getting was be. paying the military to promote patriotism they want to hear about the military by the military that works patriotism you know and that was finally put to a stop but you can't you can't have it both ways you can't on one hand be like hey you know pay us so we will like you know promote militarism of the jets fly by and

do all that which is very political you can't get around that you can saluting the flag is a political act where you know we've got to remember that standing up for the national anthem that's a political act you know so you can't be e.s.p.n. i don't begin to have a both ways now what's also interesting is before we go as i want to get this last thing speaking about police practicing their politics is. n.b.a. m.v.p. . stuff on curry wrote an essay this week on sexism in the gender pay gap and he talked a lot about how it has to do with you know his wife and his daughters and he said quote i grew up in a war as wife and daughters and wants them to grow up in a world where their gender does not feel like a rule book for what they should be or do and he wants them to grow up believing that they can dream big and strive for careers and a lot of and be treated fairly and of course be paid equally are we seeing a revolution take place in the way athletes are stepping up i mean we've seen it now. in football the copper nickel that we're seeing a revolution in athletes and stepping up and voicing their opinions more than we've

seen in the past says about inequality yeah absolutely because you know steph curry took it a step. a step beyond just publishing a se he taught a basketball two hundred young ladies this summer and that is unheard of for one of the top n.b.a. players one of the top male n.b.a. players to run it can't fall young woman that's revolutionary in its own right so you know i know some people from my feel like what he's saying is that enough to make camp is that enough but it's a great start in a culture that's extremely toxic where people probably encourage him to not speak out on things like that to not say that you know the n.b.a. should have a woman the coach which is. should by now or not you know champion any of these causes that are hurting people because you should just be quiet and dribble like that instead of having said yeah you know you should just do that so i think. you know these are the big shout out for that is hopefully we can continue to will forever and it's interesting seeing that i haven't seen politics and sports there's

going to have the header deal there sooner twined probably since my dad talked about it back in like the sixties and seventies from you know guys holding up their first at the olympics to mom and all the you know yanno perceptually the boxing championship you're not you know not going to vietnam and all that so it's an interesting story that's going to continue to develop do you always want thank you for coming on always a pleasure i'm going to be like yours. ok sue neutron stars are what happens when the core of a star dies they pack about twice the mass of our sun into a space just twelve miles across and as those gravitational waves pull orbital energy away from the stars they get closer and closer like you saw and then they collide sending jets of particles out which then creates this ultraviolet optical in near infrared light scientists call killa nova and those come on over as maybe a way for alien life to contact us yet through so a study from yuki. physicists at the kyoto university in japan has and his team

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surrounded as all parties to the complex prepare for a walk may be the final showdown in the seven year. old save the prison strike in the us and to its second week and was potentially the largest such action in american history to receive protesting in solidarity with and make it safer for conditions. that towns out to its new students spelling out the gender pronoun they prefer we debate the sensitive issue of whether freedom of expression a minority infringes the rights of a majority. if they want to say today on among tomorrow the next fridge freezer so well i don't have to fit into the you know attacking my freedom of speech.